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Man that’s a downer! But have faith – there will come a day in the not too distant future when you will be able to go on an uninterrupted date night. My girls love having a baby sitter – its a great opportunity to show off.Mumabulous recently posted..The Weight On Our Minds

Oh Grace! What a debacle! I hate when you conspire to do something utterly ‘normal’ (in most people’s eyes) and it all seems to be falling into plan and then BAM! – of course it was too good to be true! Could relate to your experience so well! And sorry for laughing about Mr Surfer having a tiger recurring dream!

As for the movie – guess what? I had a similar fate to you. Though kids were not my downfall. I attempted to watch Life of Pi yesterday and only lasted 30 mins! A migraine got the better of me and I felt like if I didn’t leave I would be vomitting in the cinema. Not a good look, hey? Anyway – I think the 3D was to blame. I WILL watch the rest of it (in 2D) tomorrow. Can’t wait. I only wish you lived closer and we’d go together! xxDeb @ Bright and Precious recently posted..The Best Of 2012

Oh, Deb! We are we not living closer together??! That’s awful about the migraine. Hope you get to enjoy the second attempt. We’re actually going again tomorrow too!
Here’s hoping we have better notes to compare after tomorrow 🙂 xxx

Oh no..you poor things. I just went to see it on the weekend. Stuff of nightmares. But good. The Gold Coast has the same problem re cinemas, we have to drive ages to on also.
There’s always next time Grace!!SarahMac recently posted..The Life of Pitch Perfect.

Oh guys, so sorry you missed out on having a full night away. It’s so rare isn’t it and it’s usually filled with some worry too.

And you’re actually great parents for going out. You’re reconnecting with their Daddy, you’re finding time for yourself and you’re having time to relax (even if it was half of Pi) – all important things to being a great parents. I sound like Kirri ( I think she’s rubbing off on me!).Penny recently posted..Exploring Predator Plants

Oh, they are gorgeous! We haven’t tried to watch a movie at the cinema for some time. We really want to see The Hobbit.. so we’ll see what happens 🙂 How frustrating for you to get all the way there only to have to turn back. Hope you get to a movie again soon… maybe a matinee? 🙂Kaz @ Melting Moments recently posted..A fun find: Mega Blocks First Builders, Free App

Oh Bugga! See if you turn your phone on silent, put it in your bag/pocket, you would have watched the whole movie blissfully unaware there was any drama 🙂 Although you’d probably have never got another baby sitter again ! 😉Aroha @ Colours of Sunset recently posted..On Day Care and Vacation Care

Aw Grace, it gets better. You will one day be able to watch a whole movie without receiving the emergency call home. But you may never again be able to watch a whole movie without falling asleep.Rachel @ The Kids Are All Right recently posted..Important things my kids will learn these holidays

oh Grace! that is horrible, a very similar thing happened to me, many moons ago when I sat down with my girlfriends – in gold class no less, to watch the Sex and The City movie – right smack in the middle, the vibrating phone and I had to run like the wind, out of the cinema, into a dark carpark, dash home like it was nobodies business, to come home to one completely distraught baby and a completely exhausted daddy – both needed mum!
It get’s better and we now watch movies in the afternoon – easier that way xx

Oh you poor thing, what a sucky thing to happen. I have never had anything like this happen, mainly because I could never get the gumption to leave me kids, which I naturally chastise myself over as well. Sometimes for us poor mums there is no winning is there. Fairy wishes and butterfly kisses lovelyRhianna recently posted..Normal mistakes and sorting oneself out

Oh no – how sad that you didn’t get the evening to yourselves – another time it will happen !!
Hope everyone is over the terror of waking up in unfamilir surroundings and tigers !!
Have the best day !
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We hardly ever go out, but I always worry about something like this happening and like Mr surfer keep a close eye on my phone. I hope you get to see the rest of the movie – it looks amazing.Catherine Rodie Blagg recently posted..Somebody’s mum went to a gig…

Oh Grace, I’m feeling your pain. Our first movie at night after Bella was born was a nightmare for me. We only lived 3 blocks from the cinema, but I couldn’t stop checking my phone, just in case. It may take a couple of years, but you will enjoy nights out, and your boys will probably love the adventure of time away from mum and dad x

OhNo poor you. Parental guilt is just the worst isn’t it. If it helps I heard the film is really rubbish and is much better viewed on the small TV screen in your lounge when it makes it to DVD. 😉rhian @melbs recently posted..Melbourne or bust

Oh poor you! We were going to try to get out and see the hobbit while we had grandparents babysitting, but in the end decided not to risk it because our littles were too unsettled away from home. Just think of the future, when they are all grown up and we can enjoy ANY movie, ANY time we want! 😉 They will grow up quicker than we think.Robyn (@slightly_deep) recently posted..For him

Oh dear. What a shame.
Never mind. Maybe you could attempt it again but on your own next time, and leave Mr Surfer with the twinlets! That sounds like a good idea!
BTW, Maltesers are an absolute necessity when going to the movies! 🙂
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Oh no, that really sux. Thankfully we have been lucky enough to have babysitters come to our house the few times we have attempted to go out without Mia so it has gone ok. The one time we left her at my parents she had a nice amount of ice-cream and fell asleep on my step-Dad’s lap so she couldn’t care less where we were! I know this kind of night is still waiting in store for us though!Kylez @ A Study in Contradictions recently posted..1000

What a bummer – that’s my worst nightmare, going out and needing to drop everything to come back home again. It’s happened to me before – it surely doesn’t make you feel better about daring to leave them and have some time to yourself, does it?Kirsty @ My Home Truths recently posted..The Organised Blogger

Oh darling I can so relate to this post. To be honest we just have up. I hope you and the surfer do get some couple time though because it is so important. I wish someone had given me this advice. Hope your darling boys settled ok and their grandparents have recovered. 🙂

Oh that’s hysterical, hubby was probably watching the phone and begging for the call. Bummer about having to come home though, we’ve been so lucky with Dex, he’s generally happy to be left, makes me so sad when he waves goodbye at Nanny’s house without even looking back!Kyla @ Three Quarters Full recently posted..Face down, ass up&#8230;

Ough date night. Can never do it without the guilty feeling. When my husband and I went on a late night date (clubbing time) I couldn’t stop thinking the what if and quietly had a panic attack when realised we hadn’t made a will incase something hapened to us and was like banging my head on the dashboard ‘shoot! We shoud have made that effing will! Shoot! Shoot!’…you know 😀 and then started thinking if we had a will whether we should renew it everytime we go on a date night. All that toughts happened during the drive to the venue. Luckily the boys were sleeping thoughout the night. Phew. And we came home safe and sound 😛

Oh no! That is totally something that would (and has) happened to me. Except the twin part, that must make it like the screaming was in stereo.iSophie recently posted..The -worst- day ever! (Bushfires)

I fear the movie might be too “heavy” for me. Or scary. Or too “carnivorous”. I have not idea why … because I don’t really know what it’s about … but I love animals … and people … and I don’t really want to see them eating each other. Do they eat each other? Oh .. you probably don’t know … you left half way through …
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We too watched Life of Pi last night… in Canberra! What a coincidence!! I had my two little people and my parents come along for the ride. The glow in the dark whale was magnificent, the tiger.. unfaithful.

Oh no! And with the cost of movies these days you also want to get your money worth. I can just imagine the guilt when you got home, hopefully there will be lots more successful date nights to come!
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Sounds all too familiar. Not the tigerphobia part, but the ‘why do we bother entertaining the notion of trusting small children to stay asleep if we leave the house for a couple of hours’ part. Particularly etched in my memory is the time my MIL insisted our first would take a bottle of expressed milk if I were not there to distract him. Came home from wedding to purple infant and redfaced MIL. At least she offered!

I am so glad our son has been staying with family for our date nights since he was young. What a horrible experience. Would make date nights more stressful than the toilet training 🙂
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Indonesian-born, Grace spent extensive time living and working overseas, primarily in Japan. She now resides in Sydney where she is mum to identical twin boys and wife to an avid surfer. While she has happily replaced office life with motherhood, Grace has discovered that a 10 year career in corporate sales and being fluent in 3 languages is futile when dealing with toddler tantrums and singing “The Wheels On The Bus”